Sentence examples for off the prosecution from inspiring English sources

At first, many of True's colleagues in Europe brushed off the prosecution.

Under anti-terrorism laws, the attorney general also had to sign off the prosecution.

Last January, in the incident that touched off the prosecution, he is alleged to have lied to university officials and federal agents by reporting that 30 vials were missing from his laboratory and presumed stolen, touching off a bioterrorism scare.

Before losing his temper, Redknapp had laughed off the prosecution's attempts to bring up his financial history, describing himself as "a bit of a gambler" and saying that his poor investment sense had nearly "wiped out" his son Jamie, who was in the public gallery.

Shaw, 53, was sentenced by Los Angeles U.S. District Judge George Wu, who shaved a month and a $3,000 fine off the prosecution's recommendation for a six-month sentence.

Mr. Lampert's lawyer, Jonathan Ripps, released a court document dated Oct. 26 indicating that a judge had signed off on the prosecution's dismissal of the charges, "based on lack of jurisdiction".

The phrase that came to mind when I first saw the indictment against Swartz was Alexander Pope's famous rhetorical question: "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" It would be possible to write off the Swartz prosecution (as some have done) as the action of a politically ambitious attorney general, but actually it fits a much more sinister pattern.

This led to a proposed Memorandum of Understanding between NMD and the Department of the Interior about the placement of food and water in the desert, but it has not warded off the littering prosecutions currently underway, and the thirteen humanitarian activists are scheduled to be tried in Tucson later this year.

The book's contents were ruled off limits to the prosecution by Judge Weinstein before the start of the trial, but for all its misguided boastfulness "Mafia Cop," if taken largely as the truth, presents a case study of a man's struggles to maintain his dignity in a changing world, and of the perpetual conflict between individual pride and institutional necessity.

The move is widely being interpreted as a way for Sudan to improve its image abroad and try to head off the possible genocide prosecution of the country's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in the International Criminal Court.

The footage showed Asians gathering and then setting off intent on violence, the prosecution said.